The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29
A SENATOR'S PLEASURES.
FOUR HOURS SPENT WITH HIM IN
HIS ROUNDS.

@1Ao ENOONOS.
An Interview With the President His
Duties in the Departments = After
seven Consulates-Seeking Pardons,
Pensions and Garden Seeds.
Washington Correspondence of the Baltimore
american.
"Give me four hours of your time and 1
will prove that the few Senators and Repre-
sentatives who remain in Washington dur
ing the vacation of Congress have the worst
roast of work known to public nlen Get
into my carriage and we viii take turn
through the departments. Most people be-
lieve that Congressmen-and mean by the
word men in both Houses--have picnic
here when there is no session. Such an idea
is fallacous-far from the truth. l would
rather do the work of two months during
the session than one month during the re-
cess In the former instance it is the work
OF statesman, in the latter that of slave
That you may know just what it is and how
it is done, want you to go with me this
morning"
Such were the words an old and widely
known United States Senator spo ,e to your
correspondent yesterday. As the vehicle
AiONNNt te'~J va IVA JS'~AAt~J viz hSIAoCOl
said:
1--WE will go to the Executive Mansion
first. My coachman knows the route | take
every day, and let him use his Judgment
as to where we stop first and last He
knows / must go to all the heads of depart
ments before | am done. You will follow
me into all the rooms | visit, for shall say
nothing to be kept from your ears, and do
nothing not intended to be seen by YOU
Only consider it all with simple secrecy :
In his hands the Senator carried great
bundle of documents-letters without envel-
opes, petitions, memorials. affidavits and all
the manuscripts well-equipped office-getter
and statesman could have while on mission
sf public business of all descriptions Five
minutes later we stood before President
Cleveland
AZ came" said the Senator, ''to present
additional endorsements for my candidate
for the British Consulate. Here are num-
Der of strong letters which | want you to
read Yourself, and not have them simply re-
ferred to Mr.. Bayard. Have you concluded
TO appoint my man to be postmaster at the
place / talked of yesterday? No? hope
YOU can see your way clear TO do so at least
some time this week. And l have to call
your attention to what / said in reference to
pardoning the man spoke of few days
ago am pleased to see you have not for
gotten what 1 said, but am sorry you have
not concluded to act. Pardon me for again
reminding you of my young man who wants
to go to West Point from at large
The carriage wheels hummed till they
stood in front of the War Department, only
block away. Here the Senator rushed up
the great marble stairway and pushed me
into the private room of the Secretary of
War, as though time was very precious
He merely said it was a pleasant morning,
laid down his bundle of documents, and be-
gan asserting from them those he intended
laying before Mr. Endicott. AS he handed
them over, he asked a personal reading, re-
marking that they were endorsements for
young man who wanted to receive an ap-
pointment to a military cadetship; letters
complaining that liquor was being sold
on military reservation, in viola
ton of law, and calling attention to certain
acts of minor army officers; and then the
Senator was out into the corridor and on his
way to the room of the Secretary of the
Navy, which is on the same floor. With
out announcing himself, the Senator walked
right into Mr.. Whitney's room. He did not
remove his hat, and instantly announced
his mission:
Nothing, l see, has been done towards
countermanding the order for a court-mar-
tial of the seamen from my State, and
about which have been here so often"
There were rapid strokes of good-natured
repartee sharp dialogue, and away the Sen
ator went, bound for the Department of
State, at the south end of the same building,
on the same floor, but cut off by partition
of iron bars.
LET me see, Mr.. Secretary" said the
Senator, addressing Mr.. Bayard. 81 have
SO much for you this morning that scarcely
know how to begin it. Here are applicants
for seven consuIates, including duplicate
endorsements for a British position, the
original OF which papers have just left at
the White House, a1fidavitS disproving the
charges made against one of my consuls;
three applications for passports; an appeal
IN the case of an American citizen in prison
III a South Sea island: three claims against
foreigners in foreign lands, and requests for
consular reports affecting the wool industry
In the Argentine Republic and Australia"
Again the carriage moved away, and then
stopped at the Department of Justice. At
torney General Garland smiled as the Sena-
tor entered, and exclaimed:
"Yo our district attorney will be appointed
this week Now, there You are pleasedr'
80 far so good" replied the Senator.
NOW say the pardon of that miserable mis-
creant, with half dozen little children,
will issue, and l will be happy. The crime
was of no consequence, and it was his first.
will call again."
Secretary Fairchild was at his desk in his
private room, Treasury Department. The
Senator's bundle of documents was appreci-
ably diminished, but he got a good assert
Inent of miscellaneous matters from it, He
presented further endorsements of appli-
cants for positions in the customs and In
ternal revenue services; a petition from
importers for an amended ruling on certain
imports, and petition from exporters for
an exactly opposite ruling on the same
matter; a memorial for clemency from a
man who had been arrested for
counterfeiting in the manufacture
OF plate advertisements; a claim for moieties
by a'man who had pointed out vessel en-
gagged in smuggling, and a remonstrance
against the appointment of a man to be
superintendent of a government building,
under the course of construction. Then the
Senator went into the Third Auditors Office,
! ana laid before him war claims of various
descriptions-for horses, forage, bounty,
etc, and fastened away to the Second
comptroller to see why the account Of an
army officer had not been adjusted.
now, have but two rooms to visit in
TINS department" said the Senator, land
tliey are those Of the superintendent of the
NE saving service and the Register. In the
- nrst will see if q man cannot be paid some
tsillng for assisting in the rescue of a ship a
lew years ago-his claim has been hanging
hre-and IN the other l will ascertain for
schoolteacher when the first bonds were
registered, aud in what amount, and how
long they were to rum These missions